Given the exponential growth of online dangers, every country today adopts cyber threat intelligence systems through agencies that monitor reports and develop their own blacklists in order to block browsing on such pages (so the term blocklist would be more correct). Depending upon the sector in which the government body in charge operates, such blacklists may focus more on scams, illicit contents, sensitive data, or hacking, etc. They collect dangerous addresses and domains from around the world but focus on dangers to their own countries.
Many governments choose not to disclose such data. On the other hand, some agencies make blacklists public, as in the following cases which FlashStart has integrated into its cloud-based protection system:
Charity against suspicious notifications of child sexual abuse through the Net. (UK)
National Institute for the Defense of Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property. (Perù)
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The global DNS survey that FlashStart does via Machine Learning is not comparable in terms of hazards analyzed, as the artificial intelligence has already cataloged all active domains and continuously investigates newly created ones, with a predictive capability of more than 92.5 percent.
Domains and potentially dangerous addresses contained in government blacklists have already been classified within one of the eighty-five categories which FlashStart uses for malware and content filtering, so they do not add anything to the DNS survey.
FlashStart only integrates them to accommodate users who want to use such filters or are required to do so by law. In the FlashStart control panel, one only needs to check such a blacklist with one click, and the filter will block all domains contained therein. Without such integrations, internet providers would be forced to manually search or integrate domains to be blocked within the filter’s categories.
FlashStart integrates only blacklists that have been made official by the various governments, firstly, because of privacy issues, and, secondly, because, if a government does not make them public, it cannot even force its internet providers to use them. Therefore, the question of usefulness ceases to exist, both for them and as a convenience in the dashboard.
